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The place where pastry is made. [Obs.] Shak.

Fit for pasture.

Grazing ground; grass land used for pasturing; pasture.

Food; nourishment. [Obs.] Toads and frogs his pasture poisonous. Spenser.

Destitute of pasture. Milton.

One who pastures; one who takes cattle to graze. See Agister.

Like paste, as in color, softness, stickness. "A pasty complexion." G. Eliot.

Pertaining to the time before the Passover, or before Easter.

A foretaste. Antepasts of joy and comforts. Jer. Taylor.

The Sunday after Easter; Low Sunday.

Good against spasms. -- n.

A foot of four syllables, the first and fourth short, and the second and third long.

Counteracting spasms; antispasmodic. -- n.

That point in the orbit of a double star where the smaller star is farthest from its primary.

See Upas.

A small pair of compasses, one leg of which carries a pencil, or a pen, for drawing circles. Its legs are often connected by a bow- shaped spring, instead of by a joint.

A by-passage, for a pipe, or other channel, to divert circulation from the usual course.

A passage different from the usual one; a byway.

Past; gone by. "By-past perils." Shak.

A part of a turtle which is next to the upper shell. It contains a fatty and gelatinous substance of a dull greenish tinge, much esteemed as a delicacy in preparations of turtle.